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There might even be some actual silver. Legend has it that the park’s satellite, Charles Island—to which you can walk when the tide is low, though it’s (a) a protected bird sanctuary and (b) reportedly filled with poison ivy—is where the accused pirate William Kidd of Scotland, a.k.a. Captain Kidd, stashed some treasure circa 1699.

Though many have searched, it seems none have yet found Kidd’s buried booty. You can only hope its seekers didn’t miss all the other treasures Silver Sands—and its neighbor, Walnut Beach—give more freely.